Torygraph? Telegraph newspaper fined £30,000 for emailing readers urging to ‘vote Tory’

Britain's Prime Minister Cameron addresses party activists at a campaign rally in Carlisle in northern England

‘The Daily Telegraph has been slapped with a £30,000 fine for sending an email on the day of the General Election urging its readers to vote for the Conservative Party, a data protection watchdog has revealed.

Hours before Brits went to the polls, the right-wing newspaper’s editor Chris Evans sent an email to thousands of subscribers that read: “The Daily Telegraph urges its readers to vote Conservative.”

“Do we continue under the Conservatives with the open, enterprise-led economic approach that has underpinned our prosperity for nearly 40 years? Or do we revert to an old-style, ‘government-knows-best’ culture championed by the most left-wing Labour leader for a generation?” it added.

None of the paper’s readers gave consent to receiving this kind of marketing, yet the message was sent nonetheless.’

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